North Walsham Parks v Cringleford away

Monday 24th July
City League Division 5
Cringleford C away

On a wet miserable evening, we made the long trip to Cringleford to take on their C team.  This had been an unhappy hunting ground in the past and with our opponents having a 100% record, this didn’t look like changing.  There were some familiar faces in the team, 2 players from their B team.

Rick and I made a good start, we had game points but failed to convert them.  It was a long match with tight games and long rallies.  A good standard of tennis in awful conditions.  In the end, we had to settle for just 1 game, but we deserved more.

Next door, Nick and Mike kept up their good form against difficult opponents.  We fell behind but started a comeback after a rain delay.  Our plucky pair managed to win 4 games.

There was only going to be one winner of this match and we played fro pride.  Nick and Mike battled away for a 4-12 defeat.  Rick and i had a strange match.  We trailed and were surprised we had won 2 more games than we though.  We fought hard and won two more for 5-11.

A frustrating night.  We have one more match to play at home to Fakenham.  We look doomed but will go down fighting.